How Will You Select Your Wand Wood and Magic Core In Pottermore?

Harry Potter enthusiasts know all about the wand woods and wand selection process that goes on at Ollivanders Wand Shop in Diagon Alley. What is a little unknown is how Pottermore will go about with the wand selection process as this is one of the more personal and exciting things one can anticipate as they proceed through Pottermore. How will a wood wand and magic core material be chosen for you in Pottermore or how will you chose your wand specifically? How many wand choices will there be and what are the Pottermore wand selection questions?

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Supposedly, J.K. Rowling has given a lot of thought into this process because it allows the person, you, to use your own personal traits to establish how a wand will be chosen. Traditionally, it would seem that your birthday would be an important attribute in helping assign a wand wood for you. The Celtic calendar was used in the Potter books to assign wood wands to some of its main characters like Ron and Hermione by matching birthdays with woods (Coincidentally this worked out for Harry Potter born on July 31st who received a wand made of Holly wood).

Wood

Birch

Birthday Falls on or Between

December 24 to January 20

Rowan

January 21 to February 17

Ash

February 18 to March 17

Alder

March 18 to April 14

Willow

April 15 to May 12

Hawthorn

May 13 to June 9

Oak

June 10 to July 7

Holly

July 8 to August 4

Hazel

August 5 to September 1

Vine

September 2 to September 29

Ivy

September 30 to October 27

Reed

October 28 to November 24

Elder

November 25 to December 22

There are also other factors involved in the wand selection process. The wood components of each wand have certain qualities or properties that have certain effects on their surroundings. For example, holly wood is suppose to repel evil while oak is a strong wood which naturally signifies enhanced strength and being a good protector.

This is an important aspect of the wand selection because if you were to recall if one were to follow the Celtic calendar, as J.K. Rowling as pointed out, Hagrid should have had an elder wand wood. But Hagrid’s personal characteristics both physical and emotional align itself more closely to the oak wand wood.

How will the magic core material be chosen to go inside the wand woods in Pottermore? And will there be exotics to choose for woods and core material in Pottermore? These are questions still unanswered at the moment. However, we do know that the magic core material matched with the type of wood has an influence on the behavior of the wand. And, surely, this has to be considered during the Pottermore wand selection process.

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At this point we do not know much about the Pottermore Wand Selection process but I did manage to snap some screenshots of 3 example questions chosen from the Pottermore wand selector.

Screenshot #1: First of all, how would you describe yourself?

Screenshot #2: Select your eye color

Screenshot #3: Do you most fear…..

What do you think so far of some of these Pottermore Wand Selector questions? Do you like the idea of using the Celtic Calendar as the main attribute for wand wood selection? Do you think there will be exotics (wood and magic core)? Let’s get an idea of what people here think about the Wand Selector.

Also, please register at the Pottermoreforum. net. I just started it and it’s already growing nicely. We have over 250 posts already within 2 days with lots more information to share not disclosed here including more screenshots. The members are extremely knowledgeable about the Harry Potter books. The conversations and interchange between the members is of the highest quality. We would sure like your participation now, especially on the verge of Pottermore opening up.

How did you get that wand? I want to get an elder wand since that is the wand I would get if I was going by my birthday, but I can’t seem to figure out the correct combination. It’s alright if you don’t feel comfortable answering; I get that. Honestly, I don’t feel completely comfortable cheating, either, but I REALLY want, well, pretty much the wand you described up there.

Well, the known cores are manticore hair, veela hair, thestral tail hair, unicorn tail hair, dragon heartstring, and pheonix tail feather. There could be others, of course, but those are the ones I know of.

I must disappoint you, the birthday isn’t the only fact. Actually I was born in February, I am a Beta-tester of Pottermore, therefore I already took the “wand-quiz” I’ve got Holly. About the wandcore. There are only three types of cores, because Olivander, as you can read in the book itself, only uses Dragonheartstring, Unicornhair or Phoenixfeather. All in all it is a nice concept so far. even the sorting hat ceremony was interesting and for me quite surprising after all. But you will see for yourself as soon as they open it for the public.

Actually, those are the only three that ollivander uses. Fleur’s wand has veela hair from her grandmother. I’m not sure about the manticore hair and the threstral hair, but it may have been a detail i missed. And if threstral hair is used, then it is also possible that the other breeds of winged horse mentioned in Fantastic beasts and where to find them could also be used, such as the Abraxan ( the kind madam maxine owns to pull her chariot in year 4), Aethonan, and Granian.

Yes, as Teodin stated there are only 3 types of cores and your birthdate certainly does not decide your wand wood. My birthday is 7/11 and my wand is Hornbeam, 10 3/4, Unicorn and Pliable. Just be honest with your answers. I thought for sure I would be sorted in to Ravenclaw and I ended up in Gryffindor : ) FYI there are now 315,951 Hogwarts students! I was in the first 200,000!

Uh… “‘The wand choses the wizzard,’ said Ollivander. ‘ that much has always been clear to those of use who have studied wandlore” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 24; The Wand Maker, Page 494, Lines 1 and 2. (There, I cited it, you can check the evidence yourself.) This test is stupid, and so is the calender. You don’t get a wand based on when you were born or a quiz, the wand choses you based on your traits, a topic which Ollivander never elaborates on, or Gregorvitch or anyone else. It is unknown exatly what each wand picks you based on. The twin of Voldemorts wand chose Harry not because he had the same personality as Voldemort, (duh, if Harry was a un-loveing, evil creep, he would just join Voldemort himself), but because he had part of Voldemort within him, and recieved some of his powers (such as Parstletonge) and traits. This part of Voldemort was able to change the mind of his wand (and the sorting hat if Harry had not said he wanted to be in Griffindor)

I was born in June and my wand wood is Redwood so that stereotype is wrong.
Length: 10 1/4 in
Wood: Redwood
Core: Dragon Heartstring
Flexibility: Hard
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Each thing represents something:
Length: I’m short but my wand is long – showing I have a big personality.
Wood: Redwood – “lucky”, but actually means that I have a good head on my shoulders and make good decisions.
Core: Dragon heartstring – I’m temperamental but pick up things faster than others.
Flexibility: My wand will probably never turn on me. (If I loose a duel my wand will probably not give it’s alliance to the winner)

I have a Sycamore and Unicorn, Fourteen and a Half inches and sycamore is not even listed and also the length of your wand depends on your height I am taller than my age and I answered that and I got a wand which is fourteen and a half inches